Montreal senior jailed in the U.K. for trying to smuggle cocaine inside a mobility scooter

U.K. border officials say a Canadian senior was hoping his age and use of a mobility scooter would help him escape scrutiny at a London airport in February.

Instead, Montrealer Ronald Lord, 71, has been sentenced to six years in jail for drug smuggling. He pleaded guilty after eight kilograms of cocaine was found hidden in the back seat panel of the scooter he was using.

"He obviously thought that because he was a pensioner he would be less of a target," says Richard Whickham, the senior investigating officer for the U.K.'s National Crime Agency (NCA), a British task force focused on serious and organized crime. "He was wrong."

Lord, who gave police an address in the Montreal suburb of Châteauguay, was sentenced last Friday in Croydon Crown Court to six years in prison. He had pleaded g